Considered Facade Solutions for Complex Applications

Description

In a continuously changing architectural landscape, building designers are employing innovative techniques to create visually stunning façades that are both functional and sustainable. Understanding the complexity of façade construction is crucial for architects, engineers and building professionals in order to keep control over the design process and to keep within budgeted construction costs. Increasing changes to regulations have resulted in the slab edge zone becoming extremely congested as we see fire barriers, for example, being incorporated. This makes for a more complex design, and we must consider how all components required in the slab edge area can work in conjunction with each other. This seminar delves deeper into wall ties, damp proof coursing, large cavities, pier arrangements, as well as slab zone components such as balcony connectors and fire barriers, discussing how they can potentially impact the design of masonry support systems.